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The Russian world number two, who takes on Czech fourth seed PetraKvitova in Thursday's semi-finals at Roland Garros, has creditedYutaka Nakamura for helping boost her claycourt confidence andcomfort. "I work with a Japanese trainer that I've known for a long time, aphysical trainer from Florida. He was in Australia for a few yearsand now he came back to the States, so I started working with himin the off-season a little bit here and there," said Sharapova. "I'll see him again after here. It's been nice to have him." Nakamura, says Sharapova, has helped tweak the way she moves onclay, always a test for a woman standing at an imposing 1.88m.
"There are a few different movements on clay with the sliding andthe recovering and getting back into the point which you work on,but I think it's just a general sense of movement." Sharapova, now in her third Roland Garros semi-final, once famouslycompared her movement on clay to that of a cow on ice. But she has steadily improved on the surface as titles in Stuttgartand Rome in the run-up to the French Open illustrate. She cruised through her first three rounds in Paris for the loss offive games before needing three error-plagued sets to see off KlaraZakopalova in the fourth round. The second seed then made the semi-finals with a routine straightsets win over Estonia's Kaia Kanepi on Wednesday.
But Sharapova realises she is for a big-hitting tussle with Kvitovaon Thursday as the pair meet at a Grand Slam for the third time inless than a year. Kvitova blasted Sharapova off court to win a maiden Wimbledon titlelast July before Sharapova earned her revenge with victory in thesemi-finals at the Australian Open in January. She also gained a straight sets triumph over the Czech in thesemi-finals on clay in Stuttgart, a key Paris warm-up tournament. "She's an extremely tough opponent, someone that I have had goodsuccess in our last couple of previous meetings, but they arealways tough matches," said Sharapova, who also reached this stageat Roland Garros in 2007 and 2011. "The last one in Stuttgart was a tough two setter for me.
She hadopportunities in that second set to win it, so yeah, she seems tobe playing really well. When she's confident, when she's hittingthe ball, she's quite dangerous." Kvitova has reached the semi-finals for the first time withouthaving to face a seeded player. On Wednesday, she came from a set down to defeat Kazakh qualifierYaroslava Shvedova who had put out defending champion Li Na in thefourth round. Kvitova said she is expecting to face a fired-up Sharapova.
"I played against Maria (before) and they are always tough matches.We have good rallies. I hope it will be the same tomorrow," shesaid. Thursday's other semi-final sees Australian sixth seed SamanthaStosur taking on pint-sized Italian Sara Errani. Stosur, the US Open champion and runner-up in Paris in 2010 toanother Italian, Francesca Schiavone, starts the semi-final against21st seed Errani as overwhelming favourite, holding a 5-0 careerlead. But Errani has punched above her weight at Roland Garros, reachinga maiden Grand Slam semi-final, knocking out former champions AnaIvanovic and Svetlana Kuznetsova along the way.
Stosur, at 1.72m and 65kg, goes into the match with aneight-centimetre height advantage and packing the muscular power ofan extra five kilos. "I guess when your opponent is a little bit shorter, it's a littlebit easier for me to try and use the serve and forehand up high,"said the Australian. "When you are that height, they are used to hitting the balls upthere too. So it can help, but they are also going to be used toit.
You have to have a plan B in the back of your head." No Australian woman has won the French Open since Margaret Court in1973. I am Computer Hardware & Software writer, reports some information about lexmark x63 printer , 5m vga cable.
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